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#5373 A Peisach Purim?
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- Q. Kvod Rabenu. My kids asked a new funny question before the four questions asked on the Seder night. It is a Purim question.
They recalled having learned that there is a Minhag to have a recollection of Queen Esther during the Pe ....
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Posted 4/4/2025 1:28 PM |
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#5372 The Risks of Showers?
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- Q. Dear Rav, regarding the upcoming Yomim Tovim. can a person who usually showers every day take a shower on Yom Yov, (especially this year where two days of Yom Tov follows Shabbos)?
If one is feeling generally uncomfortable abo ....
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Posted 4/4/2025 1:22 PM |
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#5371 No Skin of One’s Teeth
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– Q. Moreinu Verabenu Shlit’a. I have a problem this year. (2025), how do I brush and clean my teeth after eating chametz on the morning of Shabbat, since I don’t brush my teeth on Shabbat?
A. On question 3096 we wrote:
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Posted 4/4/2025 1:19 PM |
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#5370 Eat Away Yet Be Near?
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– Q. On this coming Shabbat that coincides with Erev Pesach what and how is a good way to eat the night and day meal for a large family with kids, and having it easy on cleaning the Chametz still needed for the Shabbat meals?
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Posted 4/4/2025 1:10 PM |
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#5369 The Feels on Meals
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- Q. What is the proper way to comply with the seudot (meals) of Shabbat when it is Erev Pesach (day prior to Pesach)?
A. On question 3094 we wrote:
“On this year when Erev Pesach, coincides with Shabbos, one should daven very ea ....
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Posted 4/4/2025 1:06 PM |
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#5368 Late or Up to Date?
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– Q. Those that have the tradition of reading the Hagada on the Shabbat before Pesach, when should that be done this year (2025), when Erev Pesach is on Shabbat?
A On a similar question (3080) we wrote:
“Q. This year (5781-2021) ....
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Posted 4/4/2025 1:03 PM |
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#5367 – Make Room for the Bloom!
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- Q. Can one make the bracha on the fruit trees when seeing the new buds on the trees or does one have to wait until the buds turn into flowers?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 226, based on Talmud Brochos 43) mentions that the trees are giving ....
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Posted 4/4/2025 1:00 PM |
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#5366 – Up a Tree on Blessing the Tree?
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- Q. See question above. I still don’t understand why we notice that so many Gedolim and Tzadikim made such a big deal and placed so much effort on getting together a significant group to recite the blessing on the trees. Why?
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Posted 4/4/2025 12:59 PM |
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#5365 – Hey Kid! Finnish your Vegetables Now!
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- Q. I have always wondered, how come we make such a big deal of reciting the blessing for the fruits of trees and we totally ignore a bracha for vegetables and grain plants, that are even more essential and crucial for our survival?
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Posted 4/4/2025 12:55 PM |
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#5364 Blessing On and Also the Shabbat!
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– Q. Another tree question Dear Rabbi please. Is it better to wait until Shabbat to recite this blessing on the trees?
A. In regards to waiting until Shabbos on question 287, we wrote; Yalkut Yosef (Shabbos 3, 319,77) quotes some opinio ....
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Posted 4/4/2025 12:47 PM |
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#5363 An Inyan for a Minyan?
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- Q. I have seen that in some shuls a minyan gathers to recite the bracha on the trees. Do you really require a minyan?
A. No minyan is required. However, Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit”a mentioned that since we usually maintain that “Berov ....
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Posted 4/4/2025 12:44 PM |
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#5362 A Blooming Shaila!
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- Q. In Gibraltar, they are saying Bircat Ha’ilanot after minchah today! When should we say it?
A. On question 288 we wrote; “This year, due to the earliness of Pesach, the blooming of trees at this latitude occurred very late on the ....
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Posted 4/4/2025 12:41 PM |
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#5361 - Searching a Good Hotel?
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- Q. Dear Rov Shlit’a. You know us well as I daven often in your shul. This is the first year, due to health issues that we will spending Pesach in a Hotel, and I have a number of questions. Do I have to do Bedikas Chametz in the hotel room?
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Posted 3/30/2025 11:20 AM |
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#5360 The "No Mas Atlas of Muchas Tortillas"
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- Q. Estimado Honorable Rabino. Are tortillas made of corn that is kitnioth permited when care is taken to make them and bake the as one would do with Matza Shemurah?
Why should Kitniot that is only prohibited by the Ashkenazi tradit ....
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Posted 3/28/2025 11:52 AM |
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#5359 A Blessed Sale?
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- Q. Someone that is traveling away for Pesach and will be selling the complete house with all the food included on a transaction that will take place, as organized by a competent Rabbi before the night of the 14th or Erev Pesach begins, so he wi ....
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Posted 3/28/2025 11:38 AM |
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#5358 All Menchen Must Have Intention!
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- Q. If as Poskim write that one complies with the mitzva of “Tashbisu” or destroying the chometz already thirty days before Pesach, then one should have the intention of complying with this mitzva when eating bread and other chometz during that t ....
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Posted 3/28/2025 11:33 AM |
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#5357 Very Busy with Sushi?
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- Q. See above question. As we already asking about sushi what is the correct brocho on sushi. We have heard different opinions. What is Horav Shlomo Shlit’a opinion?
A. On question 3495 we wrote:
"Q. What is Horav Mill ....
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Posted 3/28/2025 11:27 AM |
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#5356 A Kashi on the Sushi?
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- Q. Dear Rabbi Shlit’a. We have a great family of friends that need to be invited for Peisach and are having a difficult time getting an invitation. We would love to invite them and their children.
An issue is that they are Sepharadi ....
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Posted 3/28/2025 11:21 AM |
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#5355 The Brocho of Gebrochts?
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- Q. We usually invite guest for the Peisach Seder that may not be very Frum yet, as we are trying to be mekarev them while complying with the mitzva of Hachnasat Orchim.
It is not unusual to see our guest dip the matza or place piec ....
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Posted 3/28/2025 11:17 AM |
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#5354 Invite the Real Hero?
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- Q. Kvod Rabbenu Shlit”a. We are preparing for the Pesach seder and the guest we want to invite and we are considering our choices.
Is it a greater mitzva to invite a bochur who learns in Yeshiva and is already very learned and like ....
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Posted 3/28/2025 11:11 AM |
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